Haredi Rabbis Warn Followers To Avoid Calling Haredi News Hotlines

In their public notice, the rabbis warn against one of the great spiritual threats of today: "chareidi news lines," which fill their listeners with vapid messages and negative contents rife with loshon hora. These phone lines also present perverse worldviews and blatant disrespect for rabbis, talmidei chachomim and gedolei Torah.

Rabbonim Urge Public to Block 'Chareidi News Lines'
Yated Ne'eman

Gedolei Yisroel, including Maran HaRav Yosef Sholom Eliashiv shlita, are promoting a "tikkun godol" in response to one of the stumbling blocks of our day and age: home phone lines with access to numbers that have a corrupting impact and have claimed many victims.

In their public notice, maranan verabbonon warn against one of the great spiritual threats of today: "chareidi news lines," which fill their listeners with vapid messages and negative contents rife with loshon hora. These phone lines also present perverse worldviews and blatant disrespect for rabbonim, talmidei chachomim and gedolei Torah.

Roshei yeshivas, roshei kollelim, rabbonim and public figures have long warned against these phone lines, calling them a blight that destroys the Jewish soul by propagating loshon hora and blurring the boundaries between sacred and profane, between pure and tainted and through an atmosphere of levity that undermines aspirations to grow in Torah and yiras Shomayim.

Both the operators of these phone lines and those who collaborate with them make it their point to engage listeners in empty prattle, while generating dubious reports that are a world away from the hallowed halls of the beis medrash.

Rabbonim are even warning against chronic addiction to these phone lines, which pose a threat to any home founded on Torah and yir'oh, not to mention the high cost of listening to them.

Comments

[Maarvik]

Sounds like a surrogate news channel for those deprived of Web access, but also with a personal(ized) touch.

I am sure that "kosher" cellphones in Israel have those hotline numbers blacklisted.

[Abracadabra]

Is this a joke?

Shmarya - can you give a little background as to what these phone lines are for those of us who never heard of them? Are they pay per call? Who runs them? What is said on them? What kind of news do they report? Are they equal to pashkevilim?

[FM Fan]

You sure they aren't talking about those 900 numbers where you dial a porn star?

[Yerachmiel Lopin]

I am pretty sure he is talking about muckraking advocacy hotlines because of the reference to loshon horah. A US example would be Nuchem Rosenberg's hotline in Brooklyn which names molesters and other miscreants.

Wont work, but it shows the desperation of askanim whose and menuvalim whose conduct can not stand up to public scrutiny.

[Menachem Mendel lll]

These so called Rabbonim are a bunch of sucker de coque.

Working and contributing to society instead of fucking the dog all day with taxpayers money will stop the rage and anger they have brought upon themselves.

Moshiach Uber Alles.

Moschiach!

[Mikal W. Grass]

It is loshon hara to tell someone to get a job and off of the dole?

[Mittlemench]

The time has come to ban telephones. Hey, if you can't go forward you have to go backwards. The only real question is, which group will be the first to adopt this "takanah."

[effie]

No internet and no hotlines because people might hear the truth.

[effie]

So, what do they want? For people to get rid of home phone lines and only buy cellphones with plans where they control who they can call (with a percentage of the profit going into their own pockets)?

Do they have Tracfones in Israel?

[DK]

"You sure they aren't talking about those 900 numbers where you dial a porn star?"

900 numbers are far less problematic.

[FM Fan]

Maybe you call in and report your neighbors for wearing crocs on Tisha B'Av.

[Menachem Mendel lll]

Mikal W. Grass

Absofuckinlutely!

You mean that you had no idea?

[Yochanan Lavie]

Apologies to the Beatles:

I read the news today, oy vey
About a holy man who made the grave
And though the news was rather sad
Nu, I just had to laugh
I had his photograph
He blew his mind out in a shiur
He didn't notice that the sephirot changed
A ganzeh oylam stood and stared
They'd seen his face before
Nobody was really sure
If he was moshiach before.

I read a blog today, oy vey
The Israeli Army had just won the war
All the chareidim turned away
but I just had to fight
Having known what's right
I'd love to tune you in

Woke up, fell out of bed,
Put tefillin on my head
Found my way downstairs and hocked a cup,
And looking up I noticed I was late.
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Mehadrin bus ran out of gas
Found my way upstairs and learned a daf,
and Somebody coughed and I went into a dream

I read the news today oy vey
Four thousand chumrot in Bnei Braq, Israel
And though the chumrot were rather broad
They had to count them all
Now they know how many a-holes it takes to fill the Dizengoff Mall.
I'd love to tune you in.

[Yerachmiel Lopin]

I am guessing it will only be a matter of time before they will have kosher phones that allow you to call the police if physically attacked by a chiloni or an Arab, but not if it involves reporting a charedi molester.

[ah-pee-chorus]

good one YL.

[effie]

They had to count them all
Now they know how many a-holes it takes to fill the Dizengoff Mall.

Bwahhhhhhhh!!!!!!

[yidandahalf]

Look at the photo. How can a corpse advise against anything? He looks like a revived mummy.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Thanks to APC, Effie.

[yudel]

Another good sign historically. This is rolling to the end of the rabbinical reign of political terror. Nice to see now only how weak these fake leaders are but how scared they are.

[YbM]

is it the photo of brooding samael? why is he always angry?

[chaim]

for those that don't live in EY these phone lines are mostly cell phone lines wich are more expencive here and you have to get all the gossip which takes time meaning you waste
alot of money.